Omaha daily bee., 1887-04-05
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings,


The Ulysses creamery is nearly COM
pleted.
The Fremont board of trade has u
twine factory on the string.
Albion proposes to embalm her gold
mine with whiskered burrs.
The Campbell Press, number one,is out.
lever.
Loup City is beside herself with pros.
poets of an early connection with the Is.
Il Nj. and Flkhorn Valley roads.
Wahoosers are ready to relinquish all
hope of the future for five minutes of
prayerful consideration with tirebug.
Ord has been mapped out rs the hub of
fourteen railroads. The artist evidently
lost few lines while mangling the job.
The sheriff of Custer county has robbed
the cowboy of much of his terror. Here
after abstrepcrous individuals ANXIOUS to
head funeral procession will only need
to get within range of his barker.
Julius Kruge, u cripple and farmer in
Wayne county, in attempting to rescue
his stock from a burning barn, was caught
by the flames and perished. He was forty
years of age and leaves four children.
Henry Nyc Is one of the missing links
in Dakota county. A note from him was
found in his dugout announcing that he
had gone to meet the angels; Joy for
has opened a real estate Office in Omaha
and invested in corner lots.
A gang of cowardly claim jumpers near
Crawford raided the Dolby of Mrs. Mary
Fries last week and forced her to leave.
A holy howler from Missouri named
Cruise led the gang, and after disposscss-
ing the lonely woman, lnsulted the
heavens with thanksgiving prayer.
Cruise is likely to have his breath pinchcd
if he fingers in the neIghborhood.
Several envlous scribes in Ponca are
tumblng over each other in an effort to
pluck laurels from the plumed brow of
the BEE CORRESPONDENT in that city. 4 is
painful waste of energy and ink. The
lurid genius who dipped his pen in Nor
denis magic wallow and wrung from
the uncut kohinoor the suppressed fires
of ages, is n dangerous man to tritle with
when wound up. With gold mines. vol
canoes and coal ridges scattered about
and hilltops fringed with brilliants. the
BEE man should be given the freedom OF
the county to exercise his pen.
Iowa Items.
The district docket of Mills county
contains lSO cases, and the Jail eight pris
oncrs.
In the last :orty.six years Davenport
has had thirty-thrce men in the office OF
mayor.
A call has been issued by Captain
Nichols, president of the Iowa associa-
ton of Wisconsin veterans, ordering
them to assemble with the Grand Army
in Dubuque on the 10th inst.
The people Of Mason City are prepar
ing to enjoin the collection of the tax
voted in aid of the Mason City Il For,
Dodge railroad. Violation of contract is
tax amounts to over $43, 600.
Hon. James Matthews, of Knoxville
died Wednesday, of pneumonia. He
served ten years in congress from al
Ohio district. Since he moved to Iowa
he has been one of the foremost horti
culturists in the state. lie was eighty
two years old at the time OF his death.
One of the most beautiful prohibition
blossoms grown out of the Iowa liquor
law is the following; In the little town o.
Decorah, county seat of Winneshiek, ir
northeastern Iowa, a detective OF the
hunting committee of the prohibitionist:
entered the Lutheran church during di
vine service to investigate the liquor
used at the Lords supper, and forbade
| the use of wine at the Lord supper under
| threat of immediate arrest. He wa.
| thrown out of the church and the service
| finished.
Colorado
Fred Broad, of Idaho Springs, lost his
nose by coming in contact with the edge
| OF mules heel.
Three hundred men and teams ar'
grading the Santa Fc extension from
Pueblo to Denver.
The boom in Colorado may be better
] understood when ii is learned that twenty
| one villages have been started in the cen
tennal state in the last twelve months.
The site for the military post near
Denver has been selected. The tract com
| prises $40 acres, is situated on Beal
| creek, seven and a half miles from the
city and cost $31 600.
The estimated earnings of the Denver
& Rio Srande railroad for the third week
of March are $12S, 400, against Sl1o, 4S6 fol
| the same period last year, an increase OF
| $l7,0l4, or 10 per cent. For the year to
date the earnings are l,476. .722. against
81, 1G4, los for the same period in 1886, AZ
increase of $3l2, ,6l4, or 20 per cent.
The business done in the last year by
tho Colorado Smelling company ut its
works in Pueblo, is compiled as follows
| Production of lead Q, 1875 tons, silver l, $50,
900 ounces, gold 1850 ounces. The re
ceipts and shipments of the works were
as follows: Total receipts 2. 1893 car loads
| including sos Of charcoal, 829 cars lime
stone, So cars of wood, and the balance
ore and miscellaneous supplies. The
shipments OF bullion were GAO car load.
of i4i tons each. The works employ IN
men.